A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution protocol is a public record as the federal ...

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn't been used in ...

A bill allowing for nitrogen hypoxia to be used as a criminal execution method for the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

Nitrogen gas is banned in Louisiana to euthanize dogs. The state plans to use it to kill a death row inmate next month - ...

No one spoke in favor of the bill, while multiple legislators and Arkansans spoke against it. It passed anyway.

The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade and the first by nitrogen gas, but ...

A federal judge on Friday reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out ...

A bill that would allow nitrogen gas to be used in state executions was endorsed Thursday by an Arkansas House of ...